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During a recent interview with Bleacher Report during training camp, Jim Harbaugh brushed off the topic of his not-yet-received contract extension by saying, in part: “All the focus will be on the 2014 season and achieving our goals of the team.”

Today, 49ers CEO Jed York confirmed he’s in agreement. York said he and Harbaugh have decided to table contract talks until the end the season.

“We actually just had this conversation yesterday,” York said on Yahoo! Sports Talk Live. “Lots of people were talking to him about it and we just said, ‘You know what, let’s not do anything during the season. Let’s sit down a week or so after the season is over.’

“Let everyone know we’re not focused on anything that’s off the field right now. Jim and I will sit down a week or so after the season is over and we’ll figure out where we go.”

Harbaugh is entering the fourth year of five-year, $25 million contract he signed in 2011 before he led the 49ers 36-11-1 record, two NFC West titles and their first Super Bowl appearance since the 1994 season. Harbaugh is the only coach in NFL history to reach the conference championship game in each of his first three seasons.

Harbaugh is the third-highest paid coach in the NFC West behind St. Louis’ Jeff Fisher ($7 million) and Seattle’s Pete Carroll, who signed a contract extension after the Seahawks won the Super Bowl in February. Carroll signed a five-year, $35 million deal in 2011 and presumably received a raise when he signed his extension in April.

It’s possible Harbaugh could command a huge raise if the 49ers win the Super Bowl this season.

Said York: “I think I’ve said publicly and very loudly in the past: I hope he has the utmost leverage when we sit down and talk about his contract at the end of the season.”